Search
-
Recent Posts
- Truth will out 07/07/2022
- Climate heresy 04/07/2022
- Moral Immunity 03/07/2022
- As it was told in days of old…in the Church 01/07/2022
- Born, made or brainwashed 30/06/2022
Recent Comments
Post Archive
Daily Archives: 12/12/2014
The power of words
Here’s a quick summary of how we normally see the relationship of words and language to the physical world. The real world is “out there”, and words are arbitrary (and so ultimately meaningless) labels for what we perceive of it. Further, as several previous posts have discussed, what we perceive is far from the physical reality (what Owen Barfield calls “the unrepresented” or “the particles”). As he puts it, “There is no such thing as an unseen rainbow.” And so we live in a world of illusions, which we describe using arbitrary sounds. And if the reductive materialists have their way, we experience all that with minds that are also illusory … Continue reading
Posted in Creation, Philosophy, Science
1 Comment